LifespanDev. CSU2015 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Continuous Development | Development as a cumulative process gradually improving on existing skills |
| Discontinuous | Development that takes place in unique stages |
| Nature | Biology and genetics |
| Nurture | Our environment and culture |
| Psychosocial Development | Theory that emphasizes the social nature of our develpoment rather than sexual nature |
| Schemata | Concepts that are used to help us categorize and interpret information |
| Assimilation | When you take information that is comparable to what they already know |
| Accommodation | Describes when they change there schemata based on new information |
| cognitive development | domain of lifespan development that examines learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity |
| developmental milestone | approximate ages at which children reach specific normative events |
| normative approach | study of development using norms, or average ages, when most children reach specific developmental milestones |
| physical development | domain of lifespan development that examines growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness |
| concrete operational stage | third stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; from about 7 to 11 years old, children can think logically about real (concrete) events |
| conservation | idea that even if you change the appearance of something, it is still equal in size, volume, or number as long as nothing is added or removed |
| egocentrism | preoperational child’s difficulty in taking the perspective of others |
| formal operational stage | final stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; from age 11 and up, children are able to deal with abstract ideas and hypothetical situations |
| object permanence | idea that even if something is out of sight, it still exists |
| preoperational stage | second stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; from ages 2 to 7, children learn to use symbols and language but do not understand mental operations and often think illogically |
| psychosexual development | process proposed by Freud in which pleasure-seeking urges focus on different erogenous zones of the body as humans move through five stages of life |
| reversibility | principle that objects can be changed, but then returned back to their original form or condition |
| schema | (plural = schemata) concept (mental model) that is used to help us categorize and interpret information |
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